Fort George 2025 Festival of the Dark Arts in Tacoma

Peaks & Pints will tap 16 Fort George Festival of the Dark Arts stouts on Thursday, Feb. 27.

If you’ve ever wondered at the appeal, the urge, the drive to attend Fort George Brewery’s Festival of the Dark Arts, if you’ve heard wisps of the mythology and the mystery and the epic weirdness or even seen a few pictures and wondered, you know, WTF, maybe I should dress like Jack Sparrow and make my way through 80 exquisitely unique stouts on a cold mid-February Saturday in Astoria, Oregon. You should. It’s astonishing how often you’ll reach bliss at the one-day stout craft beer festival. It almost matters not from which brewery room you inhabit — Festival of the Dark Arts is an equal opportunity soul enricher. In your admiration for the magical menagerie of art and macabre entertainment — the ice, glass, ink, and fire craftspeople — you’ll also taste the best in craft brewery-made stouts, including 20 or so from Fort George proper. If you didn’t have tickets to this year’s Festival of the Dark Arts, Peaks & Pints can, at least, offer you a taste of the giant stout festival as the touring Dark Arts roadshow ends at Peaks & Pints Feb. 27. Beginning at 6 p.m., we’re tapping 14 Fort George brewed stouts plus a few other tasty treats from the Astoria brewery. Peaks & Pints posted a recap of the 2025 Fort George Festival of the Dark Arts.

Fort George Gilded Tiger

6% ABV

Fort George Sales Director Drew Worden imagined this golden milk stout with notes of coconut, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, and turmeric.

Fort George Murky Pearl

6% ABV

Designed and brewed by Brandon Sharp, the Fort’s general manager, this oyster stout features oysters, Rahr 2-row, Grain Miller Flaked Rye, Simpson Caramalt (c15), Weyermann Chocolate Wheat, and Briess Black Barley for a highly roasty taste of the ocean.

Fort George Chocolate Kraftwerk

6.3% ABV

Imagine by Fort George brewer Lindsey Stark, this German chocolate cake stout is conditioned on more than 70 total pounds of candied macadamia nuts, pecans, coconut, and chocolate.

Fort George Nitro Nog Log

7% ABV

Imagined by Fort George brewer and Quality Assurance team leader David Plechl, this nitro eggnog stout is a small stout and an imperial stout aged in Basil Hayden barrels blend and then conditioned on cardamom pods and hand-selected, rum-soaked vanilla beans.

Fort George King Baby

7% ABV

King cake-inspired stout brewed with pecans, Madagascar vanilla, and Ceylon Cinnamon Pow Pow for notes of cinnamon roll, vanilla frosting, caramel, and pecan with a dense sweet finish.

Fort George Tuesday’s Lunch

8.3% ABV

Inspired by Fort George Field Marketing Coordinator Alyssa Logan’s peanut butter and jelly lunch, this imperial stout is brewed with sweet and toasty malts, grape and raspberry puree, and peanut butter powder.

Fort George Lotta Ins, Lotta Outs

9% ABV

Imagine by Fort George brewer Christy Richards, this White Russian imperial stout is brewed with brown sugar, Tahitian vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, Arabica coffee beans, and oak spirals infused with Tia Maria Coffee Liqueur

Fort George Churro Cavatica

9.2% ABV

Fort George’s mighty, bold, and black-as-night imperial stout is infused with vanilla, cinnamon, and 600 actual churros added to the mash.

Fort George Barrel Aged Coconut Cavatica

11.5% ABV

The beloved, best-selling Cavatica Stout is infused with a staggering amount of coconut and aged in bourbon barrels for 13 months.

Fort George Fudge Sickles

13.15% ABV

Barrel-aged stout conditioned on cocoa nibs, chocolate powder, and vanilla beans for a bottomless abyss of cold, creamy chocolate with a bite of rich barrel flavor.

Fort George 2025 Matryoshka

14.7% ABV

A Westward and Westland Whiskey barrel-aged Russian imperial stout that’s slightly sweet with chocolate, caramel, cocoa, and mild whiskey notes and finishes with some cardamom and cinnamon.

Fort George 2025 Matryoshka with Vanilla Bean & Cocoa

14.7% ABV

Barrel-aged imperial stout aged 12 months in Westward and Westland Whiskey with Veracruz and West Papua vanilla, plus cocoa powder and cocoa nibs.

Fort George 2025 Matryoshka with Vanilla Bean & Cinnamon

14.3% ABV

Barrel-aged imperial stout aged 12 months in Westward and Westland Whiskey with West Papua, Hawaiian, and Peruvian Vanilla plus Cinnamon.

Fort George 2025 Matryoshka with Vanilla Bean & Pistachios

13.9% ABV

Barrel-aged imperial stout aged 12 months in Westward and Westland Whiskey with New Caledonia and West Papua vanilla plus roasted pistachios.

Fort George 2025 Matryoshka with Vanilla Bean, Cocoa, Pistachios & Cinnamon

14.3% ABV

Barrel-aged imperial stout aged 12 months in Westward and Westland Whiskey with Veracruz, New Caledonia, West Papua, Hawaiian, and Peruvian vanilla, cocoa powder, cacao nibs, cinnamon, and roasted pistachios.

Fort George Adversarial Patterns

15.2% ABV

A collaboration with Structures Brewing and Fort George, this imperial stout is aged 36 months in Willet Bourbon Barrels and conditioned on vanilla, chocolate, marshmallow, hazelnuts, and Peanuts for Fluffernutter-like flavors.

FORT GEORGE 2025 FESTIVAL OF THE DARK ARTS TAP TAKEOVER IN TACOMA, 5 p.m. to close, Thursday, Feb. 27, Peaks & pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover

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